All sheath synonyms
sheath
S s noun sheath
- crating β a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- armor β covering worn to protect the body against weapons
- cutes β attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- folder β directory
- drawer β a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- envelope β A flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.
- epidermis β The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- cutis β the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- case β A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
- jacket β a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- lamina β a thin plate, scale, or layer.
- canister β A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- carapace β A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- outside β the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- cocoon β A cocoon is a covering of silky threads that the larvae of moths and other insects make for themselves before they grow into adults.
- membrane β Anatomy. a thin, pliable sheet or layer of animal or vegetable tissue, serving to line an organ, connect parts, etc.
- french letter β a condom.
- mucosa β mucous membrane.
- mucosae β mucous membrane.
- armour β In former times, armour was special metal clothing that soldiers wore for protection in battle.
- muzzle β the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
- fig leaf β the leaf of a fig tree.
- derma β beef or fowl intestine used as a casing for certain dishes, esp kishke
- caddy β a small container, esp for tea
- johnny β (sometimes lowercase) a familiar term of address for a man or boy.
- casing β A casing is a substance or object that covers something and protects it.
- dermas β beef or fowl intestine used as a casing in preparing certain savory dishes, especially kishke.
- condom β A condom is a covering made of thin rubber which a man can wear on his penis as a contraceptive or as protection against disease during sexual intercourse.
- dermis β the layer of skin just below the epidermis
verb sheath
- wainscot β wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- quilting β a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- wainscoted β Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- wainscoting β wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- interline β to provide (a garment) with an interlining.
- interlining β something that is written or inserted between lines of writing or print.
- bushing β an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- line β a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- encrust β Cover (something) with a hard surface layer.
- wadded β a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- incrust β to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- encrusted β Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- ceil β to line (a ceiling) with plaster, boarding, etc
- ceiled β to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- quilted β resembling a quilt, as in texture, design, stitching, etc.
- interlined β Simple past tense and past participle of interline.
- wadding β a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
noun, verb sheath
- hulled β retaining the hull during threshing; having a persistent enclosing hull: hulled wheat.
- hulling β the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- husking β the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.